[nopardons]

I haven't seen it posted, but perhaps I missed it. So let me pose the question now.

WHAT ABOUT THAT THREE PAGE LETTER ?

Whoever wrote it, knew exactly the amount that Ramsey got for a bonus that year. How would Karr know this info?

How would he have had the patience to sit there and write and write and write, without fear of being found, a stranger in the house, after he had murdered that poor little girl, whom he now claims he loves; especially if it was an "accident"?

How would he have known where to find the pad, the pen, or anything else, that was used?

How did he get into the house? And don't tell me through the basement window! There was snow on the ground and NO footprints there.

[investigateworld]

You and Howlin are hereby detailed as the posse to catch details, establish time lines and resolve conflicts.



BY DIRECTION OF INVESTIGATEWORLD

Colombo

Lieutenant

[Northern Alliance]

Don't yell at me. And I expressed my own doubts why are you even addressing this to me?

[Not_Who_U_Think]

I think the ransom note is one of the more interesting aspects of the case.
For example:

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"Listen carefully! We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We respect your business but not the country that it serves. At this time we have your daughter in our possession. She is safe and unharmed, and if you want her to see 1997, you must follow our instructions to the letter"

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these guys are a modest, almost a polite group of terrorists! There's definitely a female slant to the writing - I can't see a male writing the '1997' sentence.

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"The delivery will be exhausting so I advise you to be rested. If we monitor you getting the money early, we
might call you early to arrange an earlier delivery of the money and hence an earlier pickup of your daughter."
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Hence? Who uses that? and in a ransom note??? It's like the write has watched a few Bond movies as their inspiration for the character they're trying to portray. Oh, and by the way, we're flexible. If you get the dough early, let us know and we'll drop off your kid.

All of this was obviously written for misdirection. The big question is by who?

[Timeout]

As to how he got in...it is possible he had sneaked in an open door earlier and was hidden away until they went to bed. This may not have been the first time he was in the house...as I recall the family travelled a lot. He could have had a lot of time to familiarize himself with those items, including bank records, check stubs or a letter revealing the amount of the bonus.

[mcg2000]

Many of the handwriting experts (brought in by the DA) contend it was consistent to Patsy's handwriting.

[Xenalyte]

FWIW, I did some reading on CrimeLibrary.com, and found that the no-footprints thing and the forced-entry thing were both inaccurate early leaks. (Page down until you see the basement photo - it's the paragraph above and below the picture.)

[Conservative Texan Mom]

I thought that too until I saw pictures. There is very little snow on the ground and it's only in patches. Also there was evidence of a break in. A grate near the basement window had grass caught underneath from being lifted and closed. The perp could have lifted the grate, crawled in, lifted the window and entered the basement. There was also a shoe smudge on the wall. Several other windows had signs of tampering as if someone were looking for a way to get in before discovering the basement.

If it is this guy, he very likely could have been stalking her and her family. He may have know quite a lot about the Ramseys. Perhaps this wasn't his first time to enter the house? Whomever the perp is, if this person were a stalker, he might have felt quite comfortable in the house.

Just speculation, but there are lots of ways to explain things. We'll just have to wait and see how this pans out.

[NorthWoody]

Exactly.

It would take some time to write a note that long, and it's been said that the paper that was used came from the Ramsey home.

Someone on one of these Ramsey threads stated that they suspected the killer was in the house while the Ramseys were at the Christmas party that evening. That would be plenty of time to write the note.

But, how then does the killer get JonBenet out of her bedroom and rape and kill her, all without being detected by other people in the house, none of whom had been asleep for long (due to the ME's estimates of time of death) and as a result probably would have been easily awakened?

The more I read about this, the more my gut instinct tells me the same thing it told me when I first heard of the crime, and that is that Burke did it. He was conveniently shipped off to some overseas school or someplace shortly after the crime, susequent to having some judge (who I believe was a friend of the Ramseys) "exonerate" him of the crime. Burke Ramsey, having been 9 years old at the time of the crime, is an adult now, so why are we hearing nothing about him or from him?

Something is definintely rotten in Denmark, and I fear the public may never know the real truth of this case.